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Wasted Vigil | Nadeem Aslam | Kharidobechobooks
Wasted Vigil | Nadeem Aslam | Kharidobechobooks
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This land and its killing epochs nadeem aslams dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day afghanistan a russian woman named lara arrives at the house of marcus caldwell, an englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the tora bora mountains it is possible that marcus daughter, zameen, may have known laras brother, a soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously but like marcus wife, zameen is dead; a victim of the age in which she was born in the days that follow, further people will arrive at the house: david town and james palantine, two americans who have spent much of their adult lives in the area, for their respective reasons; dunia, a young afghan teacher; and casa, a radicalised young man intent on his own path the stories and histories that unfold - interweaving and overlapping, and spanning nearly a quarter of a century - tell of the terrible afflictions that have plagued afghanistan a work of deepest humanity, the wasted vigil offers a timely portrait of this region, of love during war and conflict at once angry, unflinching and memorably beautiful, it marks nadeem aslam as a world writer of major importance
